This is a tail of separation anxiety between my bird and me and my mom and her village.
from the Joni Mitchell song “big yellow taxi” come the words “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” So it was interesting to hear that popcorn was “beside herself” in my absence – I learned this from a 1000 miles away – in Oklahoma – maybe. How did I get here? Funny you should ask.
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Eclectus and African Greys have the ability to breed year-round, many times, and never show changes in their behavior.
They both reach sexual maturity around the age of three and eventually mature and grow out of it. Conversely, Amazon parrots reach sexual maturity between the ages of five and twelve.
You can expect a great deal of aggression for one to two years during this period. The good news is Amazon aggression will settle down once they are no longer hormonal.
I make up words when it suits me – who doesn’t?
I no longer read books. I read the biggest dictionary I could find and now in my spare time I keep rearranging all the words into stories that I like in my head. To that end sometimes there’s just not enough words in the dictionary to explain every thought.
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I'm having a heck of a time trying to decide. 1. Which size Aviator flight harness to purchase for my Meyers Parrot (weighs about 80 grams) for the record -…
Sometimes it’s just hard to rationalize spending money on bird toys that you know will be destroyed.
Gas prices are not going down soon and available funds that we have to devote to our pets seems to be getting diminished daily.
Search the term “bird toy” on Google and you get 7,300,000 results. Windy city Parrot like many sites offers bird toys with free shipping ( $49 minimum order on our site). Bird toy parts although getting harder to find are still available.
Rant
You are reading a blog.
Blogs are considered social media.
I consider myself a social media guy telling my stories to you, listening to yours.
We press the digital flesh every day on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
How many times have you watched in awe as a flighted bird hops off the top of it’s cage – the “flap, flap, flap” then it lands on an inch wide piece of ceiling crown molding or a computer monitor and in bird speak says “what’s up?” Never giving a thought to that gravity thing that keeps the rest of us tethered to Mother Earth.
These are special creatures indeed.
Do we really give our birds enough credit for their ability to adapt?
Funny you should ask – file under life imitating art imitating life.
On the heels (<- pun) of last week’s blog entitled “How do birds sleep standing on one leg?” where we saw the most exceptional illustrations of how the flexor tendons in a birds leg act as an ingenious pulley system enabling a bird to firmly grasp a perch even while sleeping and in the case of birds of prey this system also aids in the killing of said prey.
Mother nature as usual was simple eloquent and right to the point. The question arose recently, for us, how do you shut down 50% of that system for maintenance? It’s been an interesting few days.
